Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Spanish form of
calaboose .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A jail. See
calaboose .
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Examples
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I must order what food required to be brought once a day, as no one was allowed to come into the 'calabozo', or dungeon, by night.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 27: Expelled from Spain Giacomo Casanova 1761
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I must order what food required to be brought once a day, as no one was allowed to come into the 'calabozo', or dungeon, by night.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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"Getting tossed in the calabozo and charged with murder ranks a shade higher than a little jam."
Tek Kill Shatner, William 1996
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On board the Reine Blanche their ankles had been manacled to an iron bar; in the Calabooza, (from the Spanish _calabozo_, a dungeon,) they were placed in rude wooden stocks twenty feet long, constructed for the particular benefit of refractory mariners.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various
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It consists usually of three native police, armed with most ferocious-looking revolvers, and preceded by a temporary guest of municipal hospitality from the local _calabozo_.
A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Mary Helen Fee
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Preguntado si no ha habido algun noevo motivo para que la prision se le agrave; Dijo que no sabe si habia habido algun motivo para tenerlo en el calabozo en donde ahora existe privandolo del alivio que ántes disfrutaba de tener todo el Presidio por Cárcel.
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They swore they would not go aboard, and went back to the town, were stripped and beaten, and lodged in the calabozo, until the next day, when the captain bought them out.
Chapter XXVII. The Sunday Wash-Up-On Shore-A Set-To-A Grandee-“Sail Ho!”-A Fandango 1909
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He staid with us till he gave himself up, and was dragged off to the calabozo.
Chapter XXVIII. An Old Friend-A Victim-California Rangers-News from Home-Last Looks 1909
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The poor fellow was seized at once, clapped into the calabozo, and kept there until an answer could be received from Monterey.
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They were moored, stem and stern, in a grog-shop, making a great noise, with a crowd of Indians and hungry half-breeds about them, and with a fair prospect of being stripped and dirked, or left to pass the night in the calabozo.
Chapter XXVII. The Sunday Wash-Up-On Shore-A Set-To-A Grandee-“Sail Ho!”-A Fandango 1909
yarb commented on the word calabozo
They were moored, stem and stern, in a grog-shop, making a great noise, with a crowd of Indians and hungry half-breeds about them, and with a fair prospect of being stripped and dirked, or left to pass the night in the calabozo.
- Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, ch. 27
September 9, 2008